Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps Seigler, already convicted three times for robbery, calculated that if he was convicted for capital murder, he might be sent to the electric chair like Frank Coppola, a fellow Virginian executed two weeks ago. At 7:25 p.m., Seigler, ushered into the courtroom of Judge William E. Spain, accepted the deal. The jury, which had sent word of a verdict, was kept waiting while Spain approved the new plea. After Seigler was led away, the judge invited the jury into the room and informed them of the guilty plea. One juror slumped in a chair, while several others just...
...proclaimed racist lives in virtual solitary confinement at the federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill., serving life terms for the 1980 slaying of two black joggers in Salt Lake City. Earlier this year, he says, he was stabbed 15 times by six black prisoners. But last week in a federal courtroom in South Bend, Ind., Franklin smiled at jurors and flashed a V-for-victory sign. They had just found him not guilty of violating the civil rights of former National Urban League President Vernon Jordan, who was wounded by rifle shots two years ago outside a Fort Wayne, Ind., hotel...
...shot Jordan because he was black. Now both federal and state prosecutors consider the case effectively closed. Apparently they believe that Franklin did it, even if that cannot be proved to a jury. Despite last week's outcome, the former American Nazi has not seen his last courtroom. He still faces trial for four murders in Indianapolis and Oklahoma City...
...that Kessler had checked, agents found more than $200,000 worth of radar and communications testing equipment made by Hughes Aircraft Corp. Last week Kessler and two accused accomplices went on trial in Los Angeles. Kessler, wearing a rumpled suit this time, was handcuffed as he entered the federal courtroom. He and Dierk Hagemann of West Germany and Robert Lambert, a California export consultant, sat silently while their lawyers questioned prospective jurors. The products confiscated at the airport were now in cartons stacked next to the jury box. The intended destination of the goods remains unknown, but officials believe that...
...hours to agree with the prosecutor's version. But at trial's end, with Chanslor free on bond pending his appeal, little seemed to have changed. "I intend to take care of her as I always have," Chanslor said as he wheeled his wife out of the courtroom and she held his arm. And to her he added, "It's O.K., honey, I'm not going away for a while...